Sample Atmosphere: current set-up for air and nitrogen through gas switching box

Cooling: from 1500 oC to 100 oC in less than 30 min

TGA measures loss of water, solvent or plasticizer; decarboxylation, pyrolysis, oxidation, decomposition percent filler or ash, percent coke on catalysts, percent carbon in oil, percent volatile component in inorganics. This is a quantitative system to identify losses without knowing what are individual steps are (unless a chemistry of the sample is known).